The company also announced new responsibilities for its top management "to create greater alignment of the organization." The most major change was the retirement of chief operating officer Don Morrison, who left the company after having been on medical leave. He was replaced by Thorsten Heins.

For several quarters, analysts' calls for a management overhaul have grown louder. Many believe the company's dual-CEO model, headed by Jim Balsillie and Mike Laziridis, is inefficient.

RIM's CEOs blasted back against talk of an executive shakeup last month, arguing that they are the right men to steer the company back on track.

RIM was once the leader of the smartphone market in North America, but sales have been waning recently as many other device makers have introduced devices with broader appeal.

Very disappointing sales of BlackBerry smartphones and its PlayBook tablets during the last quarter led RIM to cut its full-year profit expectations by 30% last month. As a result, RIM announced in June that it would begin a program to "streamline operations," which would include layoffs.

RIM said the job cuts were focused on "eliminating redundancies and reallocating resources to focus on areas that offer the highest growth opportunities."

Last month, the company said that one of those growth areas is QNX, the new operating system that powers the PlayBook tablet.

RIM said its forthcoming operating system, BlackBerry OS 7, is also a core focus. BB7 will enable a slew of sexy, high-end product launches across the globe that some analysts hope will lift the company out of its current funk.

But the release of BB7 has been delayed until late August at the earliest. That means the majority of the company's sales in the meantime have been -- and will be for the near term -- made up of cheaper, lower-end devices.